The Burnt Stick Quotes

#1. History has never been fair to the Armenians and it is too late to start being so now

Colin McEvedy

#2. Stothard learned the art of combining colors by closely studying butterflies wings; he would often say that no one knew what he owed to these tiny insects. A burnt stick and a barn door served Wilkie in lieu of pencil and canvas.

Samuel Smiles

#3. But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light matter.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#4. Cyber weapons provide the tantalising possibility of being able to cripple the enemy without inflicting lasting damage on them.

Philip Hammond

#5. They don't go in for the fancy or exotic, but stick to conventional food like flightless bird embryos, minced organs in intestine skins, slices of hog flesh and burnt ground grass seeds dipped in animal fats; or, as it is known in their patois, egg, sausage, bacon and a fried slice of toast.

Terry Pratchett

#6. The two most important documents affecting the destiny of America are the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States. Both these immortal papers relate primarily to the freedom of the individual.

David O. McKay

#7. When the men kill, it is up to us women to fight for the preservation of life.

Clara Zetkin

#8. If Tao Lin had been born to Gary Shteyngart's parents and spent his early twenties slaving for pageviews at NewYorker, he would have written something like this, the Bright Lights, Big City of the click-here-now generation.

Gideon Lewis-Kraus

#9. With all my might, I heave the axe into the ice, just inches from Kristoff's head. Oops.

Elise Allen

#10. Rights come from God, not from government.

Roy Moore

#11. Everything that belongs to the past seems to have fallen into the sea; I have memories, but the images have lost their vividness, they seem dead and desultory, like time - bitten mummies stuck in a quagmire.

Henry Miller